Staying in your comfort zone is not the attitude that many Dominican artists have assumed in the face of new opportunities, who have usually taken “the bull by the horns” and are looking for a new challenge or dream of entrepreneurship.
Here there are plenty of examples of entertainment figures who do not stop and who have put their profession aside to continue working on other projects, which sometimes does not even resemble the work with which they have become a public figure.
Tania Báez established herself as one of the most influential figures on Dominican television. With a projection, which at her age, had not been achieved by any woman in the country, In 2013 she decided to leave the television business and take another path.
Eight years after the floodlights were turned off and the cameras stopped transmitting her face, Tania is today a digital business and communication mentor for experts who want to learn how to monetize their knowledge as trainers.
In 2014, he started a new project of workshops and methods of empowerment and leadership, with the conferences “Voy Por Más”. He also wrote an autobiography entitled “The best is yet to come”, in which he exalts the will and attitude as tools to overcome adversity and see them as opportunities.
In 2018 she decided to enter the digital world, studying in Santa Clara, California, and created the first course for women called “Entrepreneurs of the future”, from then on she decided to embark, completely, in the digital business.
Silvio Mora
Everyone knows Silvio Mora as a young merenguero who has worked for years to position the Dominican rhythm with new airs. The arrival of the pandemic made Mora look for other alternatives to get rid of all that energy that emanates from his body, so since March 2020, he opened his YouTube channel and began to broadcast “The Silvio Show” with which he has achieved bring your fans entertaining interviews with artists, public figures and figures in the art world that people had forgotten.
“I started to make a program from my room, commenting on music and ranking of the 5 best meringues of the historical leaders of merengue, I immediately saw that my followers loved what I was doing and that’s when I got the idea to interview those artists of the 80s and 90s ”, he told the press.
His first interviewee was Darys Darys, from the Sin Fronteras orchestra and he received Bobby Rafael, “La Bobina”, an interview that went viral on social networks, and from there he decided to give character to “El Show de Silvio” , on his YouTube channel.
On the radio
This year the radio has made extraordinary figures of singing fall in love with its magic Diomary La Mala, Xiomara Fortuna and Pavel Núñez have let themselves be infected by the airwaves and share their life and musical experiences on the radio.
The Quisqueya FM 96.1 radio station, directed by Jesús Noval, opened the space to Diomary La Mala and Xiomara Fortuna. La Mala has its proposal “Mala Live Radio”, on Sundays from 2:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon, with content that includes music, interviews, anecdotes from his life, invited personalities and much more.
In this space, women have an important role, with the participation of various women from the artistic world. Meanwhile, Xiomara Fortuna continues from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on Sunday with its program “Tamo ‘here”, where the main segment is aimed at music criticism, as well as a selection of music by artists from the region of Caribe, interviews and other content.
“Here there is no criticism that helps people. Here one is alone, because here there is no one to help the music develop, “said Xiomara.
+ In the kitchen
Others have expanded their horizons in the kitchen. A few years ago Diomary La Mala opened a small restaurant “Mal de Amores” is the name of the bar that offered its visitors the enjoyment of good music, a great variety in their meals, all in a relaxing atmosphere.
The actor Oscar Carrasquillo did the same. Frank Cera and Juan Carlos Pichardo also ventured into the sale of food during the pandemic.
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